The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by Sen. Uche Ekunife challenging the nullification of her election to represent Anambra Central Senatorial District at the Senate.

The Anambra State Election Petition Tribunal and the Court of Appeal in Awka had nullified the election which she purportedly won in the 2015 general elections under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The Court of Appeal had affirmed the order of the tribunal for a fresh conduct of the election.

However, before the repeat of the election as ordered by the court, Ekwunife on Jan. 8, 2016, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Her attempt to pick the ticket of her new political party to contest the re-run poll failed as older members of the party kicked against it, contending that she had to wait for her turn. Delivering judgment on the appeal, Justice Amina Augie held that the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction to entertain disputes emanating from the conduct of National Assembly elections.

Augie said that Section 246(3) of the 1999 Constitution empowered the Court of Appeal to be the terminal point of all disputes emanating from State and Federal legislative elections.